User Guide

DUNE 2000 13
HOW TO PLAY
BUILDING YOUR BASE
Critical to the success of many missions is the construction of your own field Base, and the
constant maintenance and defense of this Base during combat.The Base is necessary for the
gathering of resources (harvesting Spice via the Spice Refinery with its accompanying Spice
Harvester), construction of units, and defense thereof.
To begin building your Base, you must have a Construction Yard. Unless the Construction
Yard is set up when the mission begins, you’ll have to deploy the Mobile Construction
Vehicle (MCV). Move the MCV to where you want the Construction Yard placed. Move the
cursor over the MCV and you’ll get the Deploy cursor.You’ll need clearance on all sides of
the MCV in order to deploy it. If you try to deploy the MCV where there isn’t enough
room, you will receive the No Deploy cursor, and the MCV won’t deploy. If you do have
enough room, left-click to deploy the MCV, and it’ll turn into a Construction Yard.
Once the Construction Yard is set up, the Sidebar will fill with icons and become active. In
the large upper window on the Sidebar, you will see the symbol of your House (Atreides
Hawk, Harkonnen Ram or Ordos Snake). Later, this area becomes a radar display once
you’ve built an Outpost, and have enough power to run it.
MCV
CURSOR
DEPLOY
CURSOR
NO DEPLOY
CURSOR
CONSTRUCTION
YARD